Level: 6 | Duration: 1 Year | Start Date: September
Days of the Week: Wednesday, 9.30am – 1.30pm (TBC for 2025)
Location: Riverside College, Kingsway, Widnes, WA8 7QQ
The BA (Hons) Education is classified as a full-time course but you will only be required to attend College for 1/2 day per week.
Qualification awarded by University of Staffordshire
Course Overview and Duration
The BA (Hons) Education offers a holistic approach to education and learning, relating appropriate theory to practice; a key feature of the course is a progressive understanding of you as a learner and as a learning practitioner. The course has been designed to meet the needs of anyone looking to work with people in any professional context that involves learning. This includes anyone considering working in educational settings such as: schools, colleges, academies, museums and art galleries, youth services, and education departments within organisations.
The course aims to develop reflective practitioners able to take responsibility for their own learning.
Employability and career development is at the heart of this work-based programme. Therefore, you will need to be employed in a role that involves supporting education.
Each module relies on work-based reflection and development, targeting personal and professional improvement throughout in order to help you to reflect and act on your career aspirations. Work-based reflection and development forms a major part of the overall course content and assessment.
When you enrol, you will receive the date of your first induction session where you will receive your timetable for the academic year.
On successful completion of the BA (Hons) Education award, students will be awarded a University of Staffordshire degree.
Entry Requirements
- Successful completion of the Foundation Degree in Education/Early Childhood Studies at a Staffordshire University partner college enables you to progress directly onto the BA (Hons)Education.
- Alternatively, completion of an equivalent education/early years based Foundation degree from another provider will be considered.
- GCSE English and maths at a minimum of Grade C/ Grade 4 (or equivalent).
- You must be employed for at least four hours per week in an appropriate educational role and setting. This employment may be paid or voluntary.
- Current satisfactory enhanced DBS.
A letter from the applicant’s head teacher/principal/head of department/manager must accompany any application. This letter must support the application by confirming the applicant’s involvement in supporting education and state that every effort will be made to support the applicant in undertaking the work-based activities required by the programme.
The letter must also state that the employee has appropriate and current satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance.
Course Fee (Per Year): £5,750 (TBC for 2025)
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Modules of Study
- Reflective Practitioner (40 credits) & Individual Research (40 credits)
- Changes and Developments in Education (20 credits)
- Doing Education Differently (20 credits)
Throughout the course, you will engage in: work-based tasks, creation of resources to support learning, observation of the practice of professionals, reflection on organisational practice, wider understanding of sector practice and work placement research.
Progression
This degree in Education offers access to a wide variety of career and academic options. You may progress to employment within family and children centres, care support, educational administration and management, play work, learning support and many other educational contexts. Alternatively, you may enter primary teacher training through PGCE Primary, Schools Direct, Schools Direct (salaried) and SCITT routes.
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Course Features
- Lecture 0
- Quiz 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
